MAHARASHTRA

Maharashtra Family Trees

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A brief history

West India · Formed 1960 · Capital Mumbai

Home of the Maratha Confederacy under Chhatrapati Shivaji, and the commercial heart of modern India. Formed in 1960 by carving Marathi districts out of the erstwhile Bombay State.

LanguagesMarathi

Famous families & dynasties

Bhonsle Chhatrapatis
Descendants of Shivaji Maharaj — Satara and Kolhapur lines.
Peshwa Bhat family
Chitpavan Brahmin prime ministers of the Marathas.
Deshmukh Patil families
Village revenue lineages across the Deccan.
Chitpavan Konkanastha
Coastal Konkan Brahmin scholarly households.
Bombay Parsi families
Tata, Wadia, Godrej — industrial pioneers of modern India.

Communities & clans

MarathaKunbiChitpavanDeshasthaKarhadeSaraswatAgri-KoliParsiEast Indian

Common gotras / clan names

BharadwajaKashyapaVasishtaGautamaAtriVishwamitra

Migration corridors from Maharashtra

→Village → MumbaiThe quintessential Marathi-Hindi migration story.
→United StatesMarathi IT and academic diaspora since the 1970s.
→Persian GulfKonkan Muslim and Christian professionals.

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